 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Classical education - 1825 - 66 pages
...oath in Demosthenes, yet, in the most pathetic part of it, and when he seems to have left the furthest behind him the immediate subject of his speech, led...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1827 - 698 pages
...declaiming, and made his very boldest figures subservient to, or rather an integral part of, his reasoning. The most figurative and highly wrought passage in...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1827 - 702 pages
...passage in all antiquity is the famous oath in Demosthenes, yet, in the most pathetic part of it, anJ when he seems to have left the farthest behind him...transition, returns into the midst of the main argument of bis whole defence — that the merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1838 - 644 pages
...in Demosthenes ; yet, in the most pathetic part of it, and when he seems to have left the furthest behind him the immediate subject of his speech, led...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them—a position that runs through... | |
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 414 pages
...in Demosthenes ; yet, in the most pathetic part of it, and when he seems to have left the furthest behind him the immediate subject of his speech, led...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
 | John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 pages
...in Demosthenes ; yet, in the most pathetic part of it, and when he seems to have left the furthest behind him the immediate subject of his speech, led...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 630 pages
...oath in Demosthenes; yet, in the most pathetic part of it, and when he seems to have left the furthest behind him the immediate subject of his speech, led...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Eloquence - 1856 - 442 pages
...declaiming, and made his very boldest figures subservient to, or rather an integral part of his reasoning. The most figurative and highly wrought passage in...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 440 pages
...declaiming, and made his very boldest figures subservient to, or 'rather an integral part of his reasoning. The most figurative and highly wrought passage in...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 446 pages
...declaiming, and made his very boldest figures subservient to, or rather an integral part of his reasoning. The most figurative and highly wrought passage in...merits of public servants, not the success of their councils, should be the measure of the public gratitude towards them — a position that runs through... | |
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Demosthenes ; yet, in the most pathetic part of it, and when he seems to have left the farthest behind him the immediate subject of his speech, led away by the prodigious interest of the recollections he has excited ; when he is naming the very tombs... 
